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If you take the SAT or ACT more than once, you might be worried about your score in a particular section decreasing even if your composite or final score increases. In order to show yourself in the best light, some colleges will allow you to superscore the SAT or ACT.

What is SuperScoring?

Superscoring entails taking your highest score for each section of the test across all your test sittings and using the highest section scores to calculate your final score (SAT) or composite score (ACT).

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Table: SAT superscoring example.

Math

Reading/Writing

Total

Attempt 1

650

700

1350

Attempt 2

710

650

1360

Superscore

710

700

1410

For example, let’s say you take the SAT once. You get a 650 in Math, and a 700 in Reading and Writing, giving you a final score of 1350.

You want to get that math score up, so you take it again. This time you get a 710 in Math, and a 650 in Reading and Writing, giving you a final score of 1360.

Superscoring allows you to take your highest section scores between both sittings to calculate your final score. So you would take your 710 in Math from the second test, and your 700 in Reading and Writing, giving you a final score of 1410. Get 20 SAT strategies to improve your score.

Table: ACT superscoring example.

Reading

English

Math

Science

Total

Attempt 1

22

25

30

27

26

Attempt 2

27

26

23

23

25

Superscore

27

26

30

27

28

Now let’s say you take the ACT once. You get a 22 in Reading, a 25 in English, a 30 in Math, and a 27 in Science. Your composite score is 26. The second time you take it, you get a 27 in Reading, a 26 in English, a 23 in Math, and a 23 in Science. This gives you a composite score of 25.

Superscoring your ACT allows you to take your 27 in Reading from the first test, your 26 in English from the second, your 30 in Math from the first, and your 27 in Science from the first, making your composite score 28. Not sure if you should take the ACT again? Click here to find out why you should.

Do I superscore myself? Or does the college do it?

It depends on the college. Some colleges require you to submit all of your scores from each sitting. If they superscore, they will do the calculations. Some colleges recommend but do not require you to submit all your scores. Finally, some colleges allow you to choose which scores from which sittings you want to submit, allowing you to superscore on your own.

Which colleges allow you to superscore the SAT and/or ACT?

The table below lists colleges that allow you to superscore the SAT and/or the ACT along with their score submission policies. Explanations of the score submission policies are as follows:

Requires all: These colleges require you to submit every single one of your standardized test scores, both SAT and ACT, from all sittings.

Requires all SAT or ACT: These colleges require you to submit either all of your SAT scores from all sittings or all of your ACT scores from all sittings.

Recommends all: These colleges recommend but do not require that you submit all of your standardized test scores.

Score choice accepted: These colleges allow you to submit whichever scores from whichever sittings you would like.

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Keep in mind that colleges might change their policies from year to year, so be sure to check their admissions websites to get the most up-to-date information.

TABLE: List of universities that SuperScore, and score submission policies.

College

SAT Superscore Allowed?

ACT Superscore Allowed?

Score Submission Policy

Abilene Christian University

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Adelphi University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Agnes Scott College

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Albion College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Allegheny College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

American University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Amherst College

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Appalachian State University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Arizona State University-Tempe

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Austin College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Babson College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Baldwin Wallace University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Bard College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Barnard College

Yes

No

Requires all SAT or ACT

Baylor University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Beloit College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Bennington College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Bentley University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Berea College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Berry College

Yes

No

Recommends all

Binghamton University-SUNY

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Biola University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Birmingham-Southern College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Boston College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Bowdoin College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Brandeis University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Brown University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Bryn Mawr College

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Bucknell University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Butler University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

California Institute of Technology

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

California Lutheran University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

California State University-Fresno

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

California State University-Fullerton

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

California State University-Long Beach

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

California State University-Los Angeles

Yes

Yes

Requires all SAT or ACT

California State University-Monterey Bay

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

California State University-Northridge

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Carleton College

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Carnegie Mellon University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Case Western Reserve University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Centre College

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Chapman University

Yes

No

Recommends all

Christopher Newport University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Claremont McKenna College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Clark University

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Clarkson University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Clemson University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Colby College

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Colgate University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

College of Charleston

Yes

No

Recommends all

College of New Jersey

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

College of St. Benedict

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

College of the Holy Cross

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

College of William and Mary

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

College of Wooster

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Colorado College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Colorado State University

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Columbia University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Concordia College-Moorhead

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Connecticut College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Cooper Union

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Cornell College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Cornell University

Yes

Yes

Requires all SAT or ACT

Creighton University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

CUNY-Baruch College

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Dartmouth College

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Davidson College

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Dennison University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

DePauw University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Dickinson College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Drew University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Drexel University

Yes

No

Recommends all

Duke University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Duquesne University

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Earlham College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Elon University

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Emerson College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Emory University

Yes

No

Recommends all

Fairfield University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Florida Institute of Technology

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Fordham University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Franklin and Marshall College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Furman University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Gallaudet University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

George Mason University

Yes

No

Recommends all

George Washington University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Georgetown University

Yes

No

Requires all

Georgia Institute of Technology

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Gettysburg College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Gonzaga College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Goshen College

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Goucher College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Grinnell College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Hamilton College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Hampden-Sydney College

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Hampton University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Hanover College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Harvard University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Harvey Mudd College

Yes

Yes

Requires all

Haverford College

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Hendrix College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

High Point University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Hofstra University

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Hollins University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Howard University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Humboldt State University

Yes

Yes

Requires all SAT or ACT

Illinois Institute of Technology

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Indiana University-Bloomington

Yes

Yes

Score choice okay

Ithaca College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

James Madison University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Johns Hopkins University

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Kalamazoo College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Kenyon College

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Knox College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Lafayette College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Lake Forest College

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Lawrence University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Lehigh University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Lewis & Clark College

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Loyola Marymount University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Loyola University Maryland

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Loyola University New Orleans

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Luther College

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Marist College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Mercer University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Miami University-Oxford

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Middlebury College

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Mills College

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Millsaps College

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Milwaukee School of Engineering

Yes

No

Recommends all

Mississippi State University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Morehouse College

Yes

Contact college

Score choice accepted

Muhlenberg College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

New College of Florida

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

New York University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

North Carolina State University-Raleigh

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Northeastern University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Northwestern University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Oberlin College

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Occidental College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Ohio University

Yes

No

Recommends all

Ohio Wesleyan University

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Pacific Lutheran University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Pepperdine University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Pitzer College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Point Loma Nazarene University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Pomona College

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Pratt Institute

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Presbyterian College (SC)

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Princeton University

Yes

No

Recommends all

Providence College

Yes

No

Recommends all

Purdue University-West Lafayette

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Queens University of Charlotte

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Quinnipiac University

Yes

No

Recommends all

Randolph-Macon College

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Reed College

Yes

No

Recommends all

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Rhodes College

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Rice University

Yes

No

Requires all SAT or ACT

Rochester Institute of Technology

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Rollins College

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Newark

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Samford University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

San Diego State University

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

San Francisco State University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

San Jose State University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Santa Clara University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Sarah Lawrence College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Scripps College

Yes

No

Requires all SAT or ACT

Seattle University

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Seton Hall University

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Sewanee-University of the South

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Siena College

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Simmons College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Skidmore College

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Smith College

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Soka University of America

Yes

Yes

Requires all SAT or ACT

Southern Methodist University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Southwestern University

Yes

No

Recommends all

Spelman College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

St. John Fisher College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

St. John’s College Annapolis

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

St. John’s University (NY)

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

St. Lawrence University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

St. Mary’s College (IN)

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

St. Mary’s College of California

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

St. Mary’s College of Maryland

Yes

No

Recommends all

St. Michael’s College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

St. Olaf College

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Stanford University

Yes

Yes

Requires all

Stetson University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Stevens Institute of Technology

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Stonehill College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Stony Brook University-SUNY

Yes

No

Recommends all

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

SUNY-Geneseo

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Susquehanna University

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Swarthmore College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Syracuse University

Yes

Yes

Requires all

Taylor University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Temple University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Texas Christian University

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Texas Lutheran University

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

The Catholic University of America

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

The Citadel

Yes

No

Requires all SAT or ACT

Thomas Aquinas College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Transylvania University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Trinity College (Hartford)

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Trinity University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Tufts University

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Tulane University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Union College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

United States Air Force Academy

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

United States Coast Guard Academy

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

United States Military Academy

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

United States Naval Academy

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

University at Albany-SUNY

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

University at Buffalo-SUNY

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

University of Arkansas-Fayetteville

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

University of Chicago

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

University of Colorado-Boulder

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

University of Connecticut

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

University of Dallas

Yes

No

Recommends all

University of Denver

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

University of Florida

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

University of Georgia

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

University of Kentucky

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

University of La Verne

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

University of Mary Washington

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

University of Maryland-College Park

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

University of Miami

Yes

Yes

Requires all SAT or ACT

University of New Hampshire

Yes

No

Recommends all

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

University of North Carolina-Wilmington

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

University of Notre Dame

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

University of Oregon

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

University of Pennsylvania

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

University of Pittsburgh

Yes

No

Recommends all

University of Portland

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

University of Puget Sound

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

University of Redlands

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

University of Richmond

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

University of Rochester

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

University of San Diego

Yes

No

Recommends all

University of San Francisco

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

University of South Carolina

Yes

No

Requires all

University of South Florida

Yes

No

Recommends all

University of Southern California

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

University of St. Thomas (MN)

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

University of Tennessee

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

University of Texas-Dallas

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

University of the Pacific

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

University of Tulsa

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

University of Vermont

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

University of Virginia

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Ursinus College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Valparaiso University

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Vanderbilt University

Yes

No

Recommends all

Vassar College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Villanova University

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Virginia Commonwealth University

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Virginia Military Institute

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Wabash College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Wake Forest University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Washington and Jefferson College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Washington and Lee University

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Washington College

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Washington State University

Yes

Yes

Recommends all

Washington University in St. Louis

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Wellesley College

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Wesleyan University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Westmont College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Wheaton College (IL)

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Whitman College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Willamette College

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Williams College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Wofford College

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Yes

No

Score choice accepted

Xavier University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

Yale University

Yes

No

Requires all SAT or ACT

Yeshiva University

Yes

Yes

Score choice accepted

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